IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Quantum State Tomography with Machine Learning," presented by Sanjaya Lohani, Searles Group

Event Type

Seminar/Symposium

Sponsor

IQUIST

Location

190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801

Date

Sep 28, 2022   12:00 - 1:00 pm  

Speaker

Sanjaya Lohani, Searles Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIC

Contact

Wolfgang Pfaff

E-Mail

wpfaff@illinois.edu

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Quantum State Tomography with Machine Learning

Abstract: Machine learning (ML) has found broad applicability in quantum information science, where existing ML techniques are often applied without significant alterations to network architectures. However, the concept of data-centric ML suggests that incorporating domain-specific knowledge related to the underlying structure of quantum mechanics could further improve performance. Here we propose physics-inspired data-centric heuristics for ML systems used in quantum information science and demonstrate their efficacy using a neural network trained for the task of quantum state reconstruction. While some presented heuristics are translations of well-known concepts, such as the importance of diversity in training sets, we also find it is not always optimal to engineer training sets to match the expected distribution of a target scenario. Instead, performance improves when training sets are biased to be more mixed than the target distribution. We argue this is due to the heterogeneity in the number of free variables required to describe states of different purity.

1. Lohani, S., Lukens, J., Glasser, R. T., Searles, T. A., & Kirby, B. (2022). Data-Centric Machine Learning in Quantum Information Science. Machine Learning: Science and Technology.
2. Lohani, S., Lukens, J. M., Jones, D. E., Searles, T. A., Glasser, R. T., & Kirby, B. T. (2021). Improving application performance with biased distributions of quantum states. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043145.
3. Lohani, S., Regmi, S., Lukens, J. M., Glasser, R. T., Searles, T. A., & Kirby, B. T. (2022). Dimension-adaptive machine-learning-based quantum state reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05804.
4. Lohani, S., Searles, T. A., Kirby, B. T., & Glasser, R. T. (2021). On the experimental feasibility of quantum state reconstruction via machine learning. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2, 1-10.
5. Lohani, S., Kirby, B. T., Brodsky, M., Danaci, O., & Glasser, R. T. (2020). Machine learning assisted quantum state estimation. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 1(3), 035007.